The driving force of the USA, Frank del Duca, a fan, after ending the third and final race within the 4 folks in Bobsled on the IBSF World Championships on Saturday at Lake Place. Alongside along with his push crew from Joshua Williamson, Boone Niederhofer and Charles Volker, Del Duca was proper from the rostrum with a fourth place. (Photograph supplied – Lou Reter)
Lake Placid (AP) – Francesco Friedrich received each championship he may in Bobsledding this season.
The nice German is now a world champion for the 16th time, eliminating the seventh worldwide title of 4 folks, at Mount Hoevenberg, on the final day of the Bobsled worldwide season.
That is the sixth time- all within the final seven seasons- Friedrich has swept the headlines of the World Cup season in each two and 4 folks, plus he swept these races on the Olympics or the World Championships that season.
Friedrich completed three rounds – one of many 4 scheduled heating was canceled on Friday because of the aggravation of the observe circumstances, because the air temperature elevated – over two days in 2 minutes, 44.52 seconds.
Johannes Lochner in Germany was in second place in 2: 44.80, and Brad Corridor of Britain was third in 2: 45.00. The highest American sled was led by Frank del Duca, who completed fourth in 2: 45.64, whereas Kris Horn within the US drove seventh.
German driver Laura Nolte and Push Deborah Levi athlete begins her third working on Saturday within the Bobsled feminine competitors on the IBSF World Championships. Duo took down the quickest 4 working competitions to assert the gold medal. (Photograph supplied – Lou Reter)
Del Duca stated after ending the worlds on his residence from Lake Placid.
Friedrich caught one other yr when he was the perfect Bobsledder on the earth, profitable medals in all 17 of his massive worldwide races (15 World Cups, plus the occasions of two folks and 4 folks in Lake Placid). He received 10 gold, additionally the perfect on the earth this yr, with six silver and a tan.
Lochner ended the yr with 16 medals – six gold, seven silver and three bronze.
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BOBSLED ladies
Bobsled followers supporting the USA show their outfits lengthy earlier than 4 -people with Bobsled on Saturday morning on the IBSF World Championships in Lake Placid. (Photograph supplied – Lou Reter
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Laura Nolte is the world champion in two ladies’s bobsleding for the primary time, and she or he drove Germany’s second consecutive sweep of the world championship medals at that occasion.
Nolte a worldwide world champion twice, plus a gold-winter Olympic Medalist Deborah Levi completed 4 rounds over two days in three: 46.00. Kim Kalicki and Leonie Fiebig have been second in three: 46.52, and Lisa Buckwitz and Kira Lipperheide have been in third place in three: 47.46.
The US took the following three locations after the Germans. Kaillie Humphries – who had a fourth big run – workforce with Emily Renna to complete in fourth place, simply zero.06 seconds of medals. The world monobob champion, Kaysha Love and Jazmine Jones have been in fifth, adopted by Elana Meyers Taylor and Lolo Jones within the sixth.
It was the 11th time of Germany, who swept the medals in a World Championship or in an Olympic race with Bobsled. It occurred final week within the competitors of two folks.
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Rating for medals
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Germany has claimed 73 of the 103 medals within the World Cup and the World Bobsledding championship this season, profitable 28 out of 34 races world wide. No different nation had greater than 9 Bobsled medals; UK and the USA have each completed the season with many.
Nolte had 14 medals per season, greater than Buckwitz for the primary place on the earth in 2024-25. Kalicki had seven and love – the perfect American within the rating of normal medals – completed the six season.
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Upwards
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The worldwide sliding season has ended, though some nations are nonetheless planning some inside occasions, whereas the climate permits. The primary main information of the sliding season may very well be the announcement if the d’Ampezzo curtain, Italy, will play the host on the Olympic sliding occasions or if they may happen in Lake Placid subsequent February.
The curtain is scheduled to prepare a approval or check the check on the finish of this month. It’s not clear if it will occur as deliberate.